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Anuar name meaning

“brighter, more luminous”

Letters
5
Syllables
3
First letter
A
Origin
Arabic
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂♀ Unisex
Peak 1970s: 7%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s7%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
73

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Anuar

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: AMeaning lightArabic origin

Anuar is a boy's name from Arabic meaning 'brighter, more luminous'.

What does Anuar mean?

Brighter, more luminous

In Malay: lebih bercahaya, lebih terang

#Light

Sources (2)

About the name Anuar

Anuar is the Malay spelling of Anwar, an Arabic name linked to nūr, 'light', and the root nawwara, 'to illuminate'. Anwar is also very common. According to JPN, the Anuar spelling peaked in the 1970s with 3,067 baby boys.

Gender♂♀ Boys and girls
OriginArabic
Rootن و ر · n-w-r
SyllablesA-nu-ar
First letterMalay Names starting with A
Arabic scriptأنور

Anuar in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Boy: 3,067 · 7%
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Anuar as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Anuar

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Anwar · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: Anwar · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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